[Glen Pavelich]

1) Woo Commerce sidebar not working, but instead the default side bar is appearing there.
2) Why is ‘archive’ the side bar for the Posts page?
3) Why is the ‘pages’ side bar (which does work for all pages) the default?
4) The FB share widget only works in the archives sidebar, but not the pages sidebar.
In order to NOT have a sidebar on my static home page I had to set theme options layout to “full page no sidebar”. And then I had to set right-sidebar on each and every page. Hope this helps.
The site in question is http://www.francodenicola.com

[Pratik]

Hi @fireflywebs,

1) Woo Commerce sidebar not working, but instead the default side bar is appearing there.
I tested on our site and it is working. WooCommerce Sidebar is only available for WooCommerce Pages like shop and products pages. You have selected no sidebar layout for your shop, so it is not appearing in WooCommerce Pages

2) Why is ‘archive’ the side bar for the Posts page?
Archive includes blogs posts pages when you have a Static Front Page and Separate Blog Page. This is how it is supposed to be.

3) Why is the ‘pages’ side bar (which does work for all pages) the default?
If you remove all the widgets from Page sidebar, then default Main Sidebar will be show in pages too. If you add some widget to Page Sidebar, then only this will be used for pages to override Default (Main) Sidebar.

4) The FB share widget only works in the archives sidebar, but not the pages sidebar.
In order to NOT have a sidebar on my static home page I had to set theme options layout to “full page no sidebar”. And then I had to set right-sidebar on each and every page. Hope this helps.
You could have done following:
1. Set the Layout on Static Home Page to No sidebar, Full Width from Edit Page=> Catch Evolution Options of the Static Home Page.
Screenshot: http://tinyurl.com/j53nz8f
2. Then set Main Layout at Appearance=> Customize=> Theme Options=> Layout Options=> Default Layout to right sidebar(no need to setup for each and every page/post)
This should have same results you desire.

For FB Sharing Widget, The Sidebars are exactly the same, just placeholders and names are different, so there is no reason why the widget should work on one and not on the other. Since this is not provided by the theme, please contact the plugin support forum for this issue.

Regards,
Pratik

[Glen Pavelich]

Thank you for answering my questions so thoroughly. I really appreciate the time you took to do this.

[Glen Pavelich]

Re:

1) Woo Commerce sidebar not working, but instead the default side bar is appearing there.
I tested on our site and it is working. WooCommerce Sidebar is only available for WooCommerce Pages like shop and products pages. You have selected no sidebar layout for your shop, so it is not appearing in WooCommerce Pages

Where exactly do I have selected no sidebar layout for the shop?

Because on my store page I have it clicked for right sidebar..

[Pratik]

Hi @Glen,
It should come up as soon as you add widgets to the WooCommerce Sidebar. Can you check and see if there are widgets in WooCommerce sidebar?

[Glen Pavelich]

Yes I have definitely dragged in the wooCommerce widgets to the wooCommerce side bar… that’s why it’s so weird. The default is still showing on the acct/cart/checkout pages, and nothing on the store page. http://francodenicola.com/store/

[Pratik]

Strange. Can you wait for next update which is bound to happen in a few days? It will add a WooCommerce Layout Option in Layout Options. This should solve this issue.

[Glen Pavelich]

I added wooCommerce widgets to

Optional Sidebar One

and then set that for each of the Store pages.
It works for cart, acct, checkout, but the Store page itself shows blank even though it is also set to optional sidebar one. Please see: http://francodenicola.com/store/

I thought I should also check the product pages, and they have no sidebar but that’s ok, but the category page shows blank again.
http://francodenicola.com/product-category/clearing-restoring-renewal-retreat-2016/

(There is only one test product here, and one category image.)

If all the new template will do is offer the optional WooCommerce sidebar per page, then it will likely not be a fix for this.

[Glen Pavelich]

PS to my earlier reply above – The wooCommerce sidebar works as it’s supposed on the test site I did up for this same client… (Same template, same settings, etc). Can be viewed at http://www.fireflywebs.ca/TestSite

So there’s something else amiss for their official site. (See francodenicola.com) Can you help me figure out what it is?

[Pratik]

HI Glen,

It is really difficult to debug this, but you can try following:
* Make sure all plugins are same, with activated
* Re-install the theme, just overwrite the current theme files with the new one
* If you have a child theme, can you try activation parent theme and see if the problem goes away

Let me know how this goes, and I will help you further.

Regards,
Pratik

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